What Will Replace Statism?

In Walter E. William's autobiography, Up From The Projects, the economist recalls a lecture he gave in South Africa around the time apartheid was coming to an end. Williams told South Africans their problem "wasn't ending apartheid but figuring out what was going to replace it."

After reading Albert Jay Nock's Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, I wonder if we needn't have the same concern in our society today. Instead of apartheid, we need to replace statism. Nock proposes the New Deal was the final writing on the wall for the American people, in kind with Nazism, Communism and Fascism -- that is, just another form of statism. Our society would necessarily degenerate and eventually crumble like Rome after the fall of Marcus Aurelias.

"History goes on to its end, carrying all incidental and temporary leadership in its sweep, and throwing it away when it has served its little shred of particular purpose," writes Nock.  So, after the American presidency is dethroned, what comes next? According to Nock, after the dust clears comes more statism, as the cycle simply repeats itself. The majority of people don't want the responsibility of liberty, but love its rhetoric -- kind of like a certain popular religion.

My question is this: if we perceive correctly that America is dangerously close to an imperceivable edge, what happens when the wheels come off? And if we are to replace the current wheels with liberty, what happens when the brakes cannot stop us from going off that imperceivable edge?

Delaware DOT Keeps Kids Safe from Basketball

Sounds a bit like an Onion headline, doesn't it? Every now and again there are instances of an overly intrusive government that defy logic and demand greater context. This video below is an interview with a resident of a Delaware town concerning the removal of basketball hoops in his neighborhood. Why the Delaware Department of Transportation is seizing private property is beyond me. Watch the video embedded below, and read on. 

The Statist Answer to the Tea Party Is 'One [OPPRESSED] Nation'

On Saturday, October 2, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., tens of thousands of like-minded altruists who think that more goverment control, programs, and spending is the answer to every problem imaginable, came together from all over the nation to be in one place and celebrate the epic failures  of such idealogies like marxism, socialism, and collectivism as "One Nation." 

The crowd was diverse...in some ways:  It was compiled of people from many different socio-ecnomic classes, races, sizes, shapes, sexual orientations, ethnicities, and genders, as well as members of a number of different organizations.  All, however, were united in their support of statism.

Attending groups included Communist Party USA , Democratic Socialists of America, Green for All, the Gray Panthers, the NAACP, Color of Change  Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network. and the International Socialist Organization, to name a few. It was so delightful to see so many people who believe in human rights, peace, equal rights for all, and humanitarianism come together to support such a "peace-loving" idealism of the dark ages like socialism! </sarcasm>

Science, Art, and the Free Market vs. The State

Click the image for a larger version.  Credit to Whakahekeheke.